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by Eridrus 4 hours ago
Hell yeah, $516 for a complete AWS replacement, I'm in lol!
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If you look at the milestones it's a small subset of AWS features, but yeah, the estimate is still off.
Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.
The coding isn't the hard part. It's the people and networking. Facebook's only moat is HOA boards that think private communication behind Facebook groups somehow equates to public messaging a community...

In other words, once people got on it, it was too late.

I wonder how the estimates are being created.

I doubt an LLM would estimate an AWS rewrite to cost $500.